I’m not even sure how you get there. Signal can’t move my messages from my iphone to a new laptop, it’s just all gone unless I was fortunate enough to have been manually making unencrypted copies of the database on the laptop, and I’m technically literate.

Saying the usability mode of: “you lose your history when you get a new device unless it happens to fall into a very narrow window” isn’t user friendly. And it has nothing to do with geeky nitpicking.